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County Jail to House State Inmates
County officials say convicted murderers and those imprisoned for other serious crimes are 'less likely' to be housed in the Eagleville facility.
The Montgomery County Correctional Facility in the Eagleville section of Lower Providence will house an indeterminate number of state Department of Corrections inmates on work release, following an agreement approved Thursday by the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners. Uri Monson, the county's chief financial officer, said the state is seeking multiple avenues to reduce "severe overcrowding" in its prisons and that the Department of Corrections will reimburse the county at the maximum allowable rate of $65 per day per prisoner. Monson said neither he nor the state was yet certain exactly how many inmates would be transferred to the county under the agreement, but he stressed that only inmates suitable for work release programs would …
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10:25 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
Where can I find more information on this, as to when it will begin? How can inmates apply or who decides on such? Like will it first be optional to those already sitting in MCCF looking at/pending a state sentence? I think personally this is a wonderful idea. It gives those of US who have family in the system a little bit of relief that said person will have rthe same oppertunities as those … more ›